JURIST
MAY 15, 2022
The families of 98 victims of the Champlain Towers south condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida reached a $997 million settlement Wednesday. The condominium collapsed on June 24, 2021. The 12-story complex collapsed abruptly in the early morning, almost instantly destroying dozens of individual condo units and burying victims under tons of rubble.
HowAppealing
MAY 15, 2022
“The Resurrection of State Nullification — And the Degradation of Constitutional Supremacy: SB8 and the Blueprint for State Copycat Laws.” Lauren Moxley Beatty has posted this essay online at SSRN.
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JURIST
MAY 15, 2022
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Olivier De Schutter, in a report published Wednesday, condemned the Lebanese government and the central bank for the country’s worst economic and financial crisis, which has pushed most of its population into poverty. The report categorises the crisis as entirely manufactured by failed government policies which makes the Lebanese government and the central bank responsible for human rights violations.
HowAppealing
MAY 15, 2022
“Alito’s Master Stroke, Between Precedent and Original Meaning; His Dobbs draft opinion clears away the underbrush”: Law professor Jennifer Mascott has this letter to the editor online at The Wall Street Journal.
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JURIST
MAY 15, 2022
The Texas Supreme Court Friday ruled that state agencies in Texas may investigate gender affirming care as child abuse but that the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) is not bound to undertake any such investigations. On February 18, Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion stating that many forms of gender affirming care “can legally constitute child abuse” under Texas law.
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JURIST
MAY 15, 2022
According to a press release on Thursday, May 12th from the Danish Ministry of Justice, the Danish Attorney General has recommended charging former Defence Minister, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, with “the unauthorized disclosure of highly classified information.” The Attorney General’s office has recommended that charges be brought under the rarely used section 109 of the Danish penal code.
HowAppealing
MAY 15, 2022
“Alito Doesn’t Want Your Contraceptives; Listen to what the Justices said about Griswold and privacy”: This editorial will appear in Monday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
JURIST
MAY 15, 2022
Voters in Switzerland Sunday approved by 58.4 percent a referendum mandating streaming services to invest in Switzerland’s domestic film market. 40 percent of Swiss voters came out to vote on the bill, along with other referendums. “Lex Netflix,” as it is being called, mandates that 30 percent of the streamed movies and shows are produced in Switzerland or other European counties.
HowAppealing
MAY 15, 2022
“When a Right Becomes a Privilege: The main difference between the women who will make it to an abortion provider in a post-Roe world and those who won’t? Money.” Melissa Jeltsen has this essay online at The Atlantic.
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JURIST
MAY 15, 2022
Two tech industry groups filed an emergency petition Friday seeking to block Texas House Bill 20 (HB20), a bill that would allow users to sue social networks if they believe they were banned from a platform for their political views. Applicants NetChoice, LLC (NetChoice) and Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) appealed to the Supreme Court two days after “a divided Fifth Circuit panel issued a one-sentence order granting a stay motion filed by the Texas Attorney General five
HowAppealing
MAY 15, 2022
“Most Texans do not want Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, new poll shows; But they do support banning abortion after a certain number of weeks, according to the Dallas Morning News-University of Texas at Tyler poll”: BeLynn Hollers of The Dallas Morning News has this report.
Rocket Matter
MAY 15, 2022
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HowAppealing
MAY 15, 2022
“Justice Alito’s draft on abortion — Part I: the reasoning.” Lyle Denniston has this blog post , along with blog posts titled “ Justice Alito’s draft on abortion — Part II: the result ” and “ Justice Alito’s draft on abortion — Part III, the ripple effect.
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SCOTUSBlog
MAY 15, 2022
Share On Monday, May 16, we will be live blogging as the court releases orders from the May 12 conference and opinions in one or more argued cases from the current term. Click here for a list of FAQs about opinion announcements. The post Announcement of orders and opinions for Monday, May 16 appeared first on SCOTUSblog.
HowAppealing
MAY 15, 2022
“Abortion rights backers rally in anger over post-Roe future”: Ashraf Khalil and David Sharp of The Associated Press have this report.
Broadcast Law Blog
MAY 15, 2022
Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the last week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. The FCC rejected a request that it reconsider its December 2020 decision to end a proceeding to set aside one vacant TV channel in each market for exclusive use by unlicensed wireless microphones and white space devices.
HowAppealing
MAY 15, 2022
“Oklahoma voters could be asked to change state Supreme Court nominating process”: Ben Felder of The Oklahoman has this report.
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Mondaq
MAY 15, 2022
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) serves as the national agency for performing various functions in the area of cyber security in the country as per provisions of section 70B.
HowAppealing
MAY 15, 2022
“Justice Thomas Should Take a Long Look in the Mirror”: Columnist Jesse Wegman has this essay online at The New York Times.
Mondaq
MAY 15, 2022
If you have any financial or commercial dealings with Russia, you need to be aware of the legal risks & limitations that apply.
Court-MartialTrialPractice
MAY 15, 2022
Are military law enforcement investigations complete, thorough, and unbiased? It depends. The MCIO leadership and agents will tell you they are. Our experience over the years both as military defense counsel and military prosecutors is that investigations can be incomplete, with leads not followed, evidence not retrieved, and bias in the reports submitted to prosecutors and the command.
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Mondaq
MAY 15, 2022
What is the law on driving a car with your dog in NSW?
HowAppealing
MAY 15, 2022
“Sorry, Democrats, there is no Supreme Court ‘legitimacy’ crisis”: Columnist Jason Willick has this essay online at The Washington Post.
Mondaq
MAY 15, 2022
The ATO has been challenging the engagement of legal advisors when it receives claims of legal professional privilege.
JonathanTurley
MAY 15, 2022
Politicians have long viewed tragedies and crises as opportunities not to be “wasted.” Most recently, Samantha Power, Biden’s Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, told ABC that they did not want to waste the war in Ukraine as a way of pushing green initiatives. She explained to George Stephanopoulos that you should “never let a crisis go to waste.
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